Doświadczenie estetyczne w świecie późnej nowoczesności. W horyzoncie hermeneutyki Gianniego Vattimo

The article contains an analysis of the concept of aesthetic experience of Gianni Vattimo in the horizon of his hermeneutics. It refers to the views of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin, from which Vattimo drew his inspirations. These considerations focus on the thesis that the aesthetic experience of contemporary art, which causes confusion and alienation, “weakens” the metaphysical way of thinking and also “reality” and human identity which are based on it. However, the impact of contemporary art seems to be positive because it gives an opportunity to develop a new kind of vulnerability that is associated with openness to all that is various, different, variables, fragile, incomplete and transient. Aesthetic experience is considered in relation to the trends that are characteristic for late modernity. In the article there is also analyzed the problem of the ambivalence of technology and the mass media in the process of “weakening” the fictional reality.